MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - Cashless transactions in Ukraine increased 3.5%, or by UAH 104.84 billion, to UAH 3.105 trillion in January-September 2024 year-on-year, while their number went up 8.9% to 6 ...

MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - Inflation has not begun slowing in Russia to date, and returning to the 4% target will last throughout 2025 and part of 2026, Central Bank of Russia Governor Elvira ...

MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia allows for the possibility of hiking the key rate at the regulator's board meeting in December, though the decision is not set in stone, Central ...

Central Bank data indicate that Russian banks continued to boost the corporate loan portfolio significantly by 2.3% in October versus by 2% in September. Ruble loans grew by 2.4 trillion rubles, or ...

At the end of October, the National Bank of Ukraine raised its forecast for this year's GDP growth from 3.7% to 4%, and from 4.1% to 4.3% for 2025. Simultaneous, the NBU worsened its inflation ...

In annual terms, inflation increased to 9.7% at the end of October 2024 from 8.6% at the end of September, 7.5% at the end of August, and 5.4% at the end of July. Inflation in Ukraine fell to 5.1% in ...

MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - Vietnam wishes to become a BRICS partner, while Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have accepted similar invitations earlier, the newspaper Izvestia said on Wednesday, citing ...

Armenia's GDP in 2025 is now projected at 10.891 trillion dram, down from 11.05 trillion dram in the draft budget that the government approved in September. Forecast GDP growth has been lowered to 5.1 ...

CHISINAU. Dec 3 (Interfax) - JSC Moldovagaz has procured 80% of the natural gas needed for the heating season and is currently purchasing volumes for February and March, the company's chairman Vadim ...

ASTANA. Dec 3 (Interfax) - Repairs at the Tengiz oil and gas field in Kazakhstan were not completed on schedule, the Kazakh Energy Ministry told Interfax. "No, the repairs have not been completed, the ...

MOSCOW. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia will consider the entire set of factors at the meeting of the regulator's board of directors on the key rate in December, and it is too soon to ...

BAKU. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Azerbaijan boosted sales of foreign currency at auctions 2.1-fold year-on-year to nearly $5.378 billion in January-September 2024.